Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Virginia Tech Career Mentors: Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, Dr. Aubrey Knight, Dr. Azziza Bankole, Dr. Shelvy Campbell-Monroe, and Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. So, the medical school had an opening, and I applied for the position and got accepted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Barbara Jones will become dean of the Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), effective Aug. She is also the inaugural chair of the Department of Health Social Work at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. “I She will also be a tenured professor in BUSSW’s department of clinical practice.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) has a long history of ensuring a more inclusive and equitable educational experience for students of all backgrounds. PCOM, a premier osteopathic medical school with three campuses, has implemented several initiatives aimed at promoting equity in student recruitment and community outreach.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

The impact will prepare more [underrepresented] and first-generation students for admission to medical schools across the country while sharing learnings and perspectives in a deepened relationship with our nation’s HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities].” In 2022, 48 HBCU medical students were involved in the program.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Last week, private medical school Des Moines University (DMU) and historically Black Voorhees University announced a new partnership designed to help more students advance their education in health science fields. The post Partnership Boosts Diversity in Medical Education appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2023

A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. "To Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

(Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.) For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Prior to Ohio State, Gilliam spent 16 years at the University of Chicago (UChicago), where she was a research professor and held multiple leadership roles, including associate dean of diversity and inclusion. She is recognized as a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took aim at colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices during a two-hour hearing Thursday. Republicans focused much of their attention on diversity in medical education, antisemitism, and the budgets and staffing of DEI offices at colleges.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A newly revamped curriculum embedded with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics launched this fall in the Kinesiology and Health Promotion Program (KHP) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Some earn their master’s degrees and others also go on to medical school. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Within professional environments, microaggressions persist as a pervasive and often overlooked force, representing one of the most significant challenges to equity and inclusion. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today. Microaggressions are often rooted in unconscious or implicit bias.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A bright young scholar, Pickens graduated as the top-ranked student from Miami Northwestern Senior High School in the Class of 2021, armed with an impressive academic record and multiple offers of admission from institutions such as Harvard, Howard, Duke, and the University of Miami.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Campus administrators and some members of the local Jewish community celebrated the shift as a step toward greater interreligious inclusion, aligned with recent Jewish-Christian interfaith efforts at Belmont. ” Inclusive or Exclusive? It also can lead to a lack of consensus on things like this.”

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2025

The United Kingdom faces a critical shortage of medical professionals , a problem exacerbated by the limited availability of medical school places. The Problem: Limited Medical Education Opportunities in the UK UK medical schools are oversubscribed, with only a fraction of applicants securing a place each year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

His work in the academy includes various stints in project management, student affairs, development, and fundraising roles at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Tuskegee University, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Efforts have ranged from providing LGBTQ+-inclusive housing to scholarships and sports teams. ” More from UB: Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences The growing need for LGBTQ+ healthcare The percentage of U.S. For example, the school of dentistry aims to be the No. population.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Leading the Way in Support and Inclusion According to recent census projections, the Hispanic and Latino population in the United States is expected to make up nearly 26.9% Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth At Geisel School of Medicine, support extends beyond cultural studies and language programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About seven years ago, Columbia University welcomed its first HBCU Fellowship cohort, allowing students who had graduated from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to pursue select master’s degrees in the university’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), all the while getting financial, career, and academic support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander observes that many high school and community college students see no connection to the university, therefore building pathways to higher education is part of AAP’s outreach. As AAP builds its high school partnerships, it looks to high schools with low rates of college enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Rhode Island School of Design announced Monday that it will no longer participate in U.S. Thus far, most of the colleges dropping out have been law and medical schools, although Reed College withdrew in 1995. News categorized RISD and other art and design schools as “Specialty Schools: Art.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Willumstad School of Business The STEM-designated MS in Business Analytics course at Adelphi is dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in the field. They participate in social activities that create community, such as dining at a faculty mentor’s home, hearing guest speakers, and meeting with medical school representatives.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In addition to this project, the college recently hosted its third annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference, entitled “Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe.”. Strategic Plans + Climate Survey = Inclusive Excellence — Ball State University. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A controversial physician and author urged the Kansas Legislature to ban hospitals and medical schools from compelling students and employees to pledge allegiance to critical race theory, affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Besides, he decided, many patients rely on Wikipedia to research medical concerns, and doctors who ignore that reality are fooling themselves. He decided to design and teach an elective course at the medical school on Wikipedia editing.

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Insight Into Diversity

JUNE 21, 2023

The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) has launched the Center for African American Health, a new initiative that will focus on improving the health outcomes of Black, African American, and other marginalized communities. Jerrihlyn McGee, vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion at KUMC, said in the release.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 22, 2023

We invite Diversity Champions to share their success strategies and best practices as a way to inspire other colleges and universities to set a new standard for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within their own campus environments. Jacob Pham Jacob Pham, a recent high school graduate from the small town of White Hall, Ark.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

These include opening traditional education systems to review and criticism, increasing the attention paid to the hidden curriculum, formal recognition of critical thinking as an essential dimension in the medical educational process, and increasing participatory learning throughout medical school.

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University Business

JULY 24, 2024

” This fall, for example, the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in Canada will blindly select a predetermined number of students from a pool of applicants who meet designated GPA, MCAT and Acuity Insight’s Casper assessment test scores. .”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity presents the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award Field Guide with examples of strategies and best practices used by Health Professions HEED Award-winning schools to foster an inclusive campus culture that promotes belonging and equal success opportunities.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A classic example was the Warwick Manufacturing Group in the 1990s which forged deep relationships between an engineering and business school with local manufacturing partners. More broadly, place-based innovation is a major driver of inclusive growth and socio-economic transformation, including the regeneration of post-industrial cities.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. Get the “How Fellow Instructors Create an Inclusive Classroom Experience” eBook. Written by Nick K. The post The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading appeared first on The Cengage Blog.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. Get the “How Fellow Instructors Create an Inclusive Classroom Experience” eBook. Written by Nick K.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In honor of this Heritage Month , we wanted to highlight the the inclusive and supportive nature of HBCUs, especially in the digital education space. A great example of such an approach is the Psychiatry Clerkship at Morehouse School of medicine. The medical school collaborated with students to build a six-week e-learning Curriculum.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

State and federal laws and health care schools’ accreditation standards often mandate anti-bias and cultural competency education and training. As a best practice, Health Professions HEED Award recipient schools incorporate pedagogy, projects, and training focused on anti-bias and cultural competency in both employee and student education.

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) didn’t even know how their school would adapt to the ruling, which Acuity Insights believes is a testament to the sharp legal ramifications schools are still trying to navigate. Overall, 79% opposed the removal of affirmative action. The scale has helped turn U.C.

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